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Seconding Airhead on covers33 - they've been my go to for a long time. I keep a stack of black and white inners for anything that comes without them / some of my old records that are getting a bit tattered. I also use their outer sleaves and have been happy with them too.

I really wish Trickers didn't fit so wide / I didn't have narrow feet. I've heard Church's might be better?

Is that a DIY job for the shelf? Looks like it's attached to Kallax unit - would be interested in how you did that!

Yeah, exactly that. I quite like it, makes a good cup and feels like it needs a bit less attention than the standard v60 which is nice when running around getting things together in the morning.

I have the switch but expect you would get very similar results with the clever - the whole immersion element reduces variability, right? I was using a standard V60 before I got it and not having to start sourcing different filters etc is nice and I just prefer the way the Hario looks.

Very happy with the new kit. There are textural elemtents in the Kids See Ghosts record I haven't noticed before with the LS50Ws, the new Nick Cave live record sounds really nice. As much as the Focal Aria 906 are larger than I was planning for originally, they seem to be pretty happy close to the wall; soundstage is great, they need a bit of oomph to sound really good but I find that's pretty true for the maojrity of speakers.

It may be an absolute shambles, but nothing compared to the state of the graphics card world at the minute...

Landed up biting the bullet, Atom arrived this morning with a pair of Aria 906 as there's a deal kicking around for the pairing so thought I'd see how I get on with them and can always move them on if I think I'd be better off with something else given the discount on the bundle.

First impressions, the Atom is a really lovely thing from a hardware point of view. The Arias seem good, going to need to spend some time this evening trying to get them placed right I think.

Does the robot need coffee ground as fine as a pumped machine? I'm not sure my Sage grinder would be up to it, but it's so appealing...

yeah - very valid points. I don't like making calls with headphones of any sort and can quite happily sit with them in for long periods / sometimes forget to put them back in their box. Horses for courses I guess.

I very nearly bought a pair, but the 5hr life put me off - sounds ridiculous, but there'd be enough times where I'd push that to annoy me. Think I'm going to go for the Galaxy Buds +

So, I do, I currently have a Topping A50 that runs out of a Chord Mojo, that when off goes mojo > amp.

I'm minded to get rid of the mojo as part of the move to the uniti. Turntablewise I have 2 sl1200 that run in to either an xone mixer (for 'djing') or I have a single set up that goes to a rega phono stage. I'm planning to replace an ageing musical fidelity amp as part of this and as mentioned up thread, something like the Dali Menuet SE as speakers (it's a small room).

I got the Dragonfly basically for free buying my headphones and really like it when travelling and might as well continue using it as a better pc output.

Sorry, thought this through a bit more in the post above ^

I guess if I were to get something like the naim uniti atom I'd just run audio back to the headphones and get a simple switch for when I wanted pc audio, or dump the pc as the main source at the digital end so go

Turntables >phono stage > Naim > speakers + long cable from headphone out

Then a switch that I'd plug headphones in to to choose naim output or pc > dragonfly

I think my diagram is over simplified

At the moment it goes like this, but I'm planning to move the amp and speakers a further ~1.5m away:

PC > DAC > Heaphone Amp > 'bypass' > Amp > speakers

So, my heaphone amp does a bypass when it's off that redirects the signal to the amp. This is pretty much ideal - I think I just need a longer audio cable from the the headphone amp to the main system amp, but I got bogged down in the idea that somehow running a longer digital to the DAC and figuring something else for the audio routing would be more 'optimal'.

Partly because I'm considering an amp upgrade which would include a DAC, so not entirely moot I guess.

My problem is I need audio at both ends - I suppose I just need to figure out if 1 x 4m digital and 1 x 4m audio is cheaper than 2 x 2m of both or something. Incoming ridiculous cable / cost optimising spreadsheet.

I'm trying to figure out where the dac goes in this set up - at the PC / headphone end or over with the amp / tuntables etc, I feel like I must be missing a trick from a wiring / routing perspective. Any ideas?

I'm thinking about grabbing a pair of Dali Menuet SE this week, spoke to someone at Richer Sounds who said it'd be fine to return them if I didn't get on with them, from reviews they seem to be pretty much exactly what I'm after for the my 'hobby room'.

Don't suppose anyone has heard the preceeding iteration?

There must be a Tidal connect compatible version of this not far away, I would wait given how much the lack of Tidal connect in the LS50w has annoyed me so far...

Obviously @nomoreknees gets dibs, but if that doesn't work out and someone else wants it give me a shout.

I want a robot so bad, but my involvement in the audiofile and gaming threads will go some way to explaining why I haven't bitten the bullet yet. Also, filter is really good ...

It's the best marketing strategy in years.

So this is along the lines of what I was thinking - didn't know the tool to look for, thanks!

Waiting to see if AMD have sorted their driver issues because those new cards look pretty good - will need something for when cyber punk finally comes out...

I have an Arcam CD62 that hasn't seen use in a while - let me check it's still working and I'd let it go for a forum donation if you could pick up SE5?